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Updated on Aug 31st 2011 at 7:14 PM from the JustGiving API
Thank you to all you amazing people for helping us reach our target and for saving lives in Africa! You are all very special people- have we inspired any of you to take up your own challenge? Wish us luck for Sunday! Thanks again from us all and from all the people who can't thank you themselves x
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Water is essential for life</span></strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">, yet one in eight of the world’s population do not have access to it and almost 40% of the world’s population do not have adequate sanitation. </span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Drinking, sanitation, and hygiene needs constitute the basic human survival needs for water. </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">These minimum requirements total about </span><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">50 litres</span></strong><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> per person per day. In parts of Africa, Women and Children have to walk an average of</span><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> 5km</span></strong><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> a day to access water, which is<strong> </strong></span><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;" lang="EN-US">often from unprotected water sources</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">, </span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;" lang="EN-US">such as rivers or muddy dugouts</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: small;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">.</span></strong><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><strong>‘Team EPP’</strong> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Becky, Charlotte, Clare, Louise and Sarah will walk 5km and carry 50 litres of water between us as a way of </span><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">raising awareness</span></strong><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> and to </span><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">raise money</span></strong><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> for Disasters Emergency Committee <strong>DEC</strong> to support the relief effort in East Africa.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Filling our water containers in Himley Lake, the route takes us through the park, in to Baggeridge Country park and back, returning the water to the lake at the end.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Please be generous and sponsor us so that we can raise loads of money for this worthy cause. Its unfathomable that people should be suffering as they are in Africa today, don’t be stingy, get your wallet out and pledge what you can. There’s the Bob Geldof bit....now just do it!</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thank you from us, and on behalf of all those who can’t thank you themselves.</span></span></span></p> <p> </p>